Re: machine-readable mirror list

[Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>]

Hi,

If you want apt-spy to read the mirror list in rfc822 directly and avoid parsing:
http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/webwml/english/mirror/Mirrors.masterlist
http://mirror-master.debian.org/staticlist/Mirrors.masterlist

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:49:47PM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 05:50:26PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Paul Wise wrote:
[..]
> > >> We have had the mirrors list on each mirror for a long time:
> > >> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors.txt
> > >
> > > That's not exactly machine readable tho.
> > 
> > apt-spy consumes it OK, usually. You are right though; it could
> > definitely be made into a better format, .822 or YAML or JSON or any
> > standard format.
> 
> Today the list is available in the following formats:
> - today's master source rfc822:
>   http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/webwml/english/mirror/Mirrors.masterlist (used
>   by d-i choose-mirror)
> - YAML after http://teubr.eu.org/~spaillar/debian/qamirrors/Mirror-list-to-yaml.pl
>   back to rfc822 using http://teubr.eu.org/~spaillar/debian/qamirrors/yaml-to-mirror-list.pl
> 
> I saw that many apt-spy netslect-apt and others try to parse html produced on
> the website...
> 
> PS: debian-mirrors@lists.debian.org can be used to discuss mirrors as well.

-- 
Simon Paillard